'collaborator' definitions:
Definition of 'collaborator'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling]
noun
An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners" [syn: collaborator, cooperator, partner, pardner]
Definition of 'collaborator'
From: GCIDE
- collaborator \col*lab"o*ra`tor\, n. [L. collaborare to labor together; col- + laborare to labor: cf. F. collaborateur.]
- 1. An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. one who willingly cooperates with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'collaborator'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- apostate,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- backslider,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bolter,
- coauthor,
- collaborationist,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- convert,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- crypto,
- dance critic,
- defector,
- deserter,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- fellow traveler,
- fifth column,
- fifth columnist,
- fraternizer,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- mugwump,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- proselyte,
- quisling,
- recidivist,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- reversionist,
- reviewer,
- runagate,
- saboteur,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- schismatic,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- security risk,
- separatist,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- strikebreaker,
- subversive,
- technical writer,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversator,
- traitor,
- Trojan horse,
- turnabout,
- turncoat,
- turntail,
- underground,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer